Nokia Comes with Music 22 October 2008

Nokia has announced their new brainless idea ‘Comes with Music’, a music rental service for your mobile.

Under the scheme, you get 12 months of unlimited music downloads on pay-as-you-go phones. After the 12 months… you can download tunes only if you purchase another Nokia product. Also, based on previous music rental services, when Nokia comes to their senses and scraps this desperate attempt to erect another walled garden, and deactivates the DRM servers it would no longer be possible to reauthorise purchased songs when changing computers, phone or operating systems, and your music library will most likely stop working.

For £129.95 the idiots for sign up for this will be able to download from a library of more than two million tracks, all of which are lovingly wrapped in Windows DRM which will allow the files to be played only on one Windows PC and one Nokia phone.

As you might have gathered, I think this scheme is yet another poorly concealed attempt by the music industry to screw the consumers, but maybe I am being too quick to judge Nokia lets see what Nokia marketing boss Will Harris had to say on the launch;

We like to think this is a quiet revolution in the music industry, where there are new people coming in and fusions of mobile and music… The record labels see it as a big opportunity for them. A lot of people in the world have got mobile phones - it’s an increasing number and we like to think that in this way we can basically grow their market rather than shrink it.

No, seems like I was right after-all.

One of the musicians backing the new scheme is (apparently), Rapper Dizzee Rascal who said;

It’s the way forward. I think that’s how most people are gonna do it. Easy access, people just want to get their thing quickly. It’s the future, innit.

You know Mr Rascal, Bill Hicks had a phrase for people like you… little corporate whores, sucking Satan’s cock. Tell me Mr Rascal, what does Nokia jissum taste of?